reddle

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Variant of ruddle.

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n. Red ochre

v. To redden.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Red chalk. See under chalk.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An earthy variety of hematite iron ore. It is fine-grained, and sufficiently compact to be cut into strips, which are used for various purposes, as for marking sheep and drawing on board. This material is found in several localities in England, and much more rarely in the United States, where it is generally called red chalk.

n. A name applied by workmen to red-lead with oil when used to smear a surface which is being scraped to a fit.

He cleaned the grave out, procured some reddle and water, brushed the bricks over with it, and informed the person that he had a most excellent _second-hand grave to sell as good as new_, and if she thought it would suit her poor departed friend, would let her have it at half the price of a new one: this was too good an offer to be rejected; but Jemmy found, on measuring the coffin, that his second-hand grave was too short, and consequently was obliged to dig the earth away from the end of the grave and beat the bricks in with a beetle, before it would admit its new tenant.